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Mantle Defined

The largest part of the Earth's interior, below the crust and above the core, probably composed of ultramafic rocks.

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The Grand Canyon: How Old is It?

Published November 18, 2008, 6:12 am, LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News

The Grand Canyon seems to be fixed in time, but it is hardly permanent, and lately, neither are geologists' estimates for its age, sparking what one scientist calls "the Grand Canyon Wars."

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Plankton Contribute to Continental Crackups

Published November 17, 2008, 6:34 am, Discovery Channel

Plankton makes up black shale which presents weak zones in Earth's crust.

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Threat to life is transformed into a lesson on how to live

Published November 14, 2008, 2:12 am, The Des Moines Register

The doctor told Lon Larson and wife Linda Krypel the diagnosis: It was cancer.

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Threat to life is transformed into a lesson on how to live

Published November 13, 2008, 11:16 pm, The Altoona Herald-Mitchellville Index

The doctor told Lon Larson and wife Linda Krypel the diagnosis: It was cancer. Weeks of aches, pains, nausea, dizziness and swelling finally had a name - specifically, Mantle cell lymphoma, a rare and aggressive form of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

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Endless Oil?

Published November 13, 2008, 3:15 pm, Forbes

Radical Russian researchers say we are looking for oil in all the wrong places.

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The Exciting Evolution of ... Rocks

Published November 13, 2008, 11:07 am, LiveScience.com via Yahoo! News

Every rock tells a story. And some of those stories are about the history of life.

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Instrument Center Celebrates 10 Years At Tech

Published November 13, 2008, 9:58 am, Small Town Papers News Service

To celebrate its 10th anniversary at New Mexico Tech, the IRIS-PASSCAL Instrument Center will open its doors to the public from 4 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 20....

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AGU journal highlights: Nov. 11, 2008

Published November 12, 2008, 8:56 am, EurekAlert!

( American Geophysical Union ) Featured in this release are research papers on the following topics: Ups and downs of Greenland's ice sheet; Shrinking Arctic ice boosts phytoplankton growth; Comet-like tail of ion flux streams from Mars; Surface waves effects in deep ocean; Potential predictability for some earthquakes?; Magnetic fields reconnecting in near-Earth space; Studying Saturn's oxygen ...

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  • Google Reader (1000+): Can slabs of oceanic crust descend as deep as to the core-mantle boundary? Is cold mid-ocean-ridg e basalt dense enough to sink so deep into the mantle?
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